 | Jesse Ames Spencer - United States - 1866 - 620 pages
...entire service. This was Gen. WT Sherman, who, by order of the war department, March 12th, was placed in command of the military division of the Mississippi, comprising the departments of the Ohio, the Cumberland, the Tennessee, and the Arkansas. Gen. JB McPherson, who also ranked vety... | |
 | Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 842 pages
...Secretary of War and the Lieutenant-General. By the same order Major-General Sherman was assigned to the command of the military division of the Mississippi, comprising the departments of the Ohio, the Cumberland, the Tennessee, and the Arkansas ; and Major-General McPherson to the command... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 842 pages
...field, and, until further orders, with the Army of the Potomac. Gen. WT Sherman was assigned to the ? the Ohio, the Cumberland, the Tennessee, and the Arkansas; Gen. JB McPherson, commanding, under him,... | |
 | 1865 - 278 pages
...me by the Secretary of War, at Louisville, Kentucky, on the eighteenth of the same month, I assumed command of the ' Military Division of the Mississippi,' comprising the Departments of the Ohio, the Cumberland, and the Tennessee, and telegraphed tha ordi;r assuming command, together... | |
 | Thomas Prentice Kettell - United States - 1865 - 872 pages
...Grant, then recently appointed lientenant-general and commander-in-chief, turned over to Sherman the Ma the Cumberland, the Tennessee, and the Ohio. The latter general was succeeded by General McPherson... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1865 - 454 pages
...Army of the Cumberland, leaving a great gap beOn the 18th of October General Ulysses S. Grant assumed command of the Military Division of the Mississippi, comprising the Departments of the Ohio, the Cnmberland, and the Tennessee. He was invested with plenary powers, and a military autocracy... | |
 | Samuel Millard Bowman, Richard Biddle Irwin - United States - 1865 - 574 pages
...by the War Department on the 16th, and delivered to him by the Secretary of war in person, assumed command of the Military Division of the Mississippi, comprising the departments of the Ohio, the Cumberland, and the Tennessee, and the three large armies operating therein. Upon his... | |
 | Frank Moore - United States - 1865 - 830 pages
...me by the Secretary of War at Louisville, Kentucky, on the eighteenth of the same month, I assumed command of the " Military Division of the Mississippi," comprising the departments of the Ohio, the Cumberland, and the Tennessee, and telegraphed the order assuming command, together with... | |
 | Samuel Millard Bowman, Richard Biddle Irwin - Bookbinding - 1865 - 568 pages
...by the War Department on the 16th, and delivered to him by the secretary of war in person, assumed command of the Military Division of the Mississippi, comprising the departments of the Ohio, the Cumberland, and the Tennessee, and the three large armies operating therein. Upon his... | |
 | North American review - 1866 - 662 pages
...had been done at the recommendation of General Grant, who, on the 18th of the same month, had assumed command of the Military Division of the Mississippi, comprising the Departments of the Ohio, the Cumberland, and the Tennesi-ee. Sherman at once published, for the guidance of the officers... | |
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Military Division of the Mississippi," comprising the Departments of the Ohio, the Cumberland, and the Tennessee, and telegraphed... 
